The Threat of the Jewish Race

Over the span of the Holocaust over 6 million Jewish people were senselessly tortured and killed. The man in charge of this horrible act is no stranger to history, Adolf Hitler. There is only one logical explanation in my opinion for the way Hitler acted. Paranoia. You can clearly see that as soon as he felt that he was being threatened by someone or some group, he just took them out, like the Jews, the Gypsies, the swing kids, and many more. Hitler was scared or paranoid of having his power taken from him so he did what he thought was the best decision that he could do to protect what little power he did have at the time, which was genocide.

According to A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust, “by 1926 the Hitler Youth, the Student League and the Pupils’ League were open to young Germans” (“Holocaust Timeline: The Rise of the Nazi Party”). That just shows how paranoid Hitler really was if he is starting kids off as small as six years old just to make sure he has enough Nazi soldiers to fend off any person or group that was a “threat” to him. In Hitler’s mind the only race that was acceptable was the Aryan race. The Aryan race could be described as blue eyes, fare skinned (white), blonde hair, and the Germanic race. The facial features of the Jewish people did not fit any categories of those of Aryan’s. Hitler ultimately wanted to rebuild the Holy Roman Empire, which included only the purest race, the Aryan race. As said on the website The History Place- Rise of Hitler: Hitler’s Book “Mein Kampf”, Hitler says that the “The mightiest counterpart to the Aryan is represented by the Jew” (“Hitler’s Book “Mein Kampf””). “He then goes on to refer to the Jews as parasites, liars, dirty, clever and much worse.” (“Hitler’s Book “Mein Ka...

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